Sulaiman Shams

Sulaiman Shams (14 October 1941-27 January 1982) was a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader.

Biography
Sulaiman Shams was born on 14 October 1941 in Bethlehem, Mandatory Palestine to a Sunni Muslim family. After the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, his family fled to Syria to leave Israeli occupation. Shams graduated from the University of Damascus with a degree in medicine in 1964, and he joined the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) that same year. Shams met Yasser Arafat in Jordan, where he fought in Black September against the Jordanian government in 1970. Shams was later appointed to be a PLO representative in Norway, and he lived in Oslo.

On 27 January 1982 Shams was assassinated in a grenade explosion outside of his apartment when men on a motorcycle threw the grenade at him as he left. Shams' death was blamed on Mossad, as they were launching Operation Wrath of God to decimate the Palestinian leadership.